Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 347 359
Rank change year-on-year +44 +12 +17
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 574 370 769
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.84% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.13% 2.15% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 182 296 632
10th Percentile £26,550 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,154 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +9.20%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,438 £57,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,250 £45,000 £44,089
% change year-on-year +0.56% +2.07% +3.74%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCNA falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 18,314 17,179 26,878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.92% 38.83% 25.47%
Number of salaries quoted 9,424 7,284 17,187
10th Percentile £30,173 £29,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.80% +3.00% -4.76%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CCNA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

CCNA job vacancy trend in the UK

CCNA
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CCNA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CCNA

CCNA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCNA over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Salary histogram for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +21 507 £50,000 +5.26% 195
UK excluding London +57 483 £45,250 +0.56% 215
North of England +40 138 £50,000 -9.09% 41
South East +1 95 £45,000 +5.88% 49
London -71 86 £75,000 +34.53% 32
Midlands +6 81 £51,058 +32.62% 20
Yorkshire +6 68 £45,500 +17.88% 11
South West -27 67 £40,000 -11.11% 39
North West +32 58 £50,000 -9.09% 21
Work from Home -14 51 £47,750 +6.11% 93
East Midlands -9 44 £51,058 +45.88% 3
East of England +30 43 £34,000 -28.42% 29
Scotland +40 38 £26,150 -25.82% 15
West Midlands -8 37 £53,401 -17.85% 17
Wales -21 21 £33,000 -12.00% 12
North East -36 12 - - 9
Northern Ireland -32 6 - - 12

CCNA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 25 (4.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 418 (72.82%) Azure
2 49 (8.54%) AWS
3 46 (8.01%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (2.44%) Entra ID
5 11 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (1.92%) GCP
6 9 (1.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (0.87%) Mimecast
7 5 (0.87%) Power Platform
8 4 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (0.70%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.70%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (0.70%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (0.70%) Serverless
9 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.52%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.35%) ChatGPT
10 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 142 (24.74%) Firewall
2 108 (18.82%) WAN
3 87 (15.16%) LAN
4 80 (13.94%) VPN
5 60 (10.45%) Network Security
6 55 (9.58%) Wi-Fi
7 35 (6.10%) TCP/IP
8 33 (5.75%) VLAN
9 29 (5.05%) DNS
9 29 (5.05%) SD-WAN
9 29 (5.05%) VoIP
10 28 (4.88%) DHCP
10 28 (4.88%) Wireless
11 21 (3.66%) SAN
12 20 (3.48%) BGP
12 20 (3.48%) Cisco Firepower
13 16 (2.79%) Cisco ASA
13 16 (2.79%) MPLS
14 15 (2.61%) OSPF
14 15 (2.61%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (3.31%) JIRA
2 13 (2.26%) GitLab
3 9 (1.57%) Git
3 9 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.39%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.70%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.70%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
General
1 426 (74.22%) Social Skills
2 41 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (4.36%) Public Sector
4 19 (3.31%) Finance
5 15 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (2.26%) Legal
7 12 (2.09%) Retail
8 11 (1.92%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.74%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.57%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.22%) Banking
11 7 (1.22%) Law
12 5 (0.87%) Military
13 4 (0.70%) Automotive
13 4 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.70%) Electronics
14 2 (0.35%) Local Government
15 1 (0.17%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 413 (71.95%) Network Engineer
2 52 (9.06%) IT Engineer
3 29 (5.05%) Cisco Engineer
4 26 (4.53%) IT Support
4 26 (4.53%) Senior
5 23 (4.01%) Support Engineer
6 21 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (3.66%) IT Support Engineer
7 20 (3.48%) LAN Engineer
7 20 (3.48%) LAN/WAN Engineer
7 20 (3.48%) Lead
7 20 (3.48%) WAN Engineer
8 19 (3.31%) Field Engineer
8 19 (3.31%) Field Service Engineer
9 18 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
10 17 (2.96%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 16 (2.79%) Presales Engineer
12 15 (2.61%) Senior Network Engineer
13 12 (2.09%) Firewall Engineer
13 12 (2.09%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.70%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.70%) boto
1 4 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (0.35%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.10%) Data Centre
2 17 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (2.96%) Driving Licence
2 17 (2.96%) Security Posture
3 13 (2.26%) Smartphone
4 11 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (1.39%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.05%) FMCG
8 5 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (0.87%) PKI
8 5 (0.87%) Replication
9 4 (0.70%) Fibre Optics
9 4 (0.70%) Insider Threat
9 4 (0.70%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (0.70%) Social Media
10 3 (0.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (14.63%) Windows
2 45 (7.84%) Windows Server
3 43 (7.49%) Linux
4 11 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (1.57%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
3 50 (8.71%) ITIL
4 42 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 36 (6.27%) Customer Service
5 36 (6.27%) Disaster Recovery
6 34 (5.92%) High Availability
7 31 (5.40%) Computer Science
7 31 (5.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (4.88%) Incident Response
8 28 (4.88%) Network Monitoring
9 24 (4.18%) Business Continuity
9 24 (4.18%) Presales
9 24 (4.18%) SIEM
10 23 (4.01%) Network Architecture
11 20 (3.48%) Network Design
11 20 (3.48%) Process Improvement
12 17 (2.96%) Penetration Testing
13 15 (2.61%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (2.44%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 33 (5.75%) PowerShell
2 17 (2.96%) Python
3 9 (1.57%) Bash
4 8 (1.39%) Java
5 3 (0.52%) SQL
6 2 (0.35%) Bicep
7 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 574 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 369 (64.29%) Network+ Certification
3 363 (63.24%) Azure Certification
4 101 (17.60%) CCNP
5 65 (11.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 63 (10.98%) Degree
7 39 (6.79%) MCSE
8 38 (6.62%) Security Cleared
9 25 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (3.66%) SC Cleared
11 20 (3.48%) CCIE
12 17 (2.96%) A+ Certification
12 17 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (2.61%) JNCIA
14 13 (2.26%) CISSP
15 12 (2.09%) OSCP
15 12 (2.09%) RHCSA
16 11 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
16 11 (1.92%) DV Cleared
17 10 (1.74%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (3.66%) SLA
3 17 (2.96%) GDPR
4 12 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (2.09%) NIST
5 4 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.70%) QA
6 3 (0.52%) COBIT
7 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.17%) GRC
8 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (9.41%) Active Directory
2 35 (6.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (3.48%) Hyper-V
4 16 (2.79%) vSphere
5 12 (2.09%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.92%) Docker
7 8 (1.39%) Squid
8 7 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (1.05%) Firmware
10 3 (0.52%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.52%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (3.48%) FortiGate
2 17 (2.96%) Ansible
3 16 (2.79%) Terraform
4 15 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.74%) Cisco Prime
6 9 (1.57%) ZABBIX
7 8 (1.39%) Kubernetes
7 8 (1.39%) Packer
8 4 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.70%) Control-M
8 4 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.70%) Nmap
8 4 (0.70%) WSUS
9 3 (0.52%) OpenView
9 3 (0.52%) Tivoli
9 3 (0.52%) VxRail
10 1 (0.17%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 453 (78.92%) Cisco
2 409 (71.25%) Microsoft
3 330 (57.49%) ForeScout
4 54 (9.41%) Fortinet
5 48 (8.36%) VMware
6 28 (4.88%) Aruba
7 26 (4.53%) Meraki
8 25 (4.36%) Dell
9 21 (3.66%) Juniper
10 20 (3.48%) CheckPoint
10 20 (3.48%) SolarWinds
11 19 (3.31%) Palo Alto
11 19 (3.31%) Splunk
12 12 (2.09%) HP
12 12 (2.09%) Sophos
13 11 (1.92%) Red Hat
13 11 (1.92%) Veeam
14 9 (1.57%) Citrix
15 8 (1.39%) Oracle
16 7 (1.22%) Zscaler